At 11:11 AM 03/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm sure they did--gotta get the babes to look at you, at least :)
>
>The few majorly into it body builders I've met have each gotten to a point
>where they opted for muscle size over flexibility.  That would never have
>worked in a h-g society, I suspect.  That, and working on every possible
>muscle with the intensity these same guys applied, seem to me to be a
>modern obsession.
>
>"Bigger, stronger, faster" have always, to my knowledge, been selected
>for...  especially when they mean more food, more respect, etc.
>
>Along those same lines...  my personal visually-aesthetic preference I find
>likes definition, but I find too much bulk or too sculpted a real turn-off
>(see, even the way I put it, "too much")...  I find that an interesting
>thing in myself... I wonder how much we're trained to find a particular
>body type pleasing, how much is more instinctive (from the natural
>selection pov), and how much is somehow individual?
>
>Dianne

        Being overly concerned with your hair style and whether or not your arm
vein is visible is a more modern trait of the Californium Sissyfus Dorkus
and not in any way shape or form related to what a true man considers
important in securing a mate.

Dave